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Mamada Perdida

Joke Van den hof, Belgium, 2016, 6’

It is sometimes said that if a man places a pearl under the skin of his penis, he will bring the woman the greatest pleasure. She is a beautiful girl, and her looks are so stunning; her head is like a perfect pearl. He grants her the greatest of all pleasures, while she will give him anything he desires. After a playful love dance, she melts into him, at the cost of losing themselves in each other to arrive at their deepest desires.

Mamada Perdida (Joke van den hof, 2016)
Mamada Perdida (Joke van den hof, 2016)
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Pleasure Garden

Joke Van den hof’s Mamada Perdida

Laïka Planchenault
15.12.2024

Prompted by the curious Vice article “Why Are Cuban Men Putting Pearls in Their Dicks?”, Joke Van den hof’s mind sprouted this steaming tale of love and lust. The Antwerp-based illustrator and animator ponders the consequences of total infatuation. If her playful rendering seems like a far leap from the original story, further consideration has it make perfect sense. Mamada Perdida—which roughly translates to ‘lost blowjob’—reminds us of the frenzied state so characteristic of first love. What better testament to the follies of love (or is it lust?) than a slew of men putting pearls in their penises in hopes of offering their sexual partners the ultimate pleasure?

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Credits

Script
Joke Van den hof
Camera
Joke Van den hof
Editor
Joke Van den hof
Animation
Joke Van den hof
Film school
KASK School of Arts
484
animation eroticism romance

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Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns.

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Red Giant

Anne Verbeure, Belgium, 2021, 11’

Day and night, a giant sits on a hill, far away from his smaller fellow man. He fills his days organising things and making sure everything is in the right place at the right time.

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Scum Mutation

Ov, France, 2020, 10’

In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

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Devotion

Cynthia Madansky, Turkey, 2003, 34’

A sparing and minimal travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of rituals.

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Loveboard

Felipe Casanova, Belgium, Switzerland, 2023, 17’

A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken queer relationship. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the filmmaker’s attentive look at an intimate archive, a fading first love surfaces. Loveboard is a playful reflection on what remains.

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Cyclepaths

Anton Cla, Belgium, 2023, 12’

On the outskirts of the city, the new modern buildings are silent, and the motorway bridge drones. Birds are circling in the sky, and a young man, concealed by his hoodie, is riding his e-scooter along a park path. The only irritating element is the rifle over his shoulder. Cyclepaths conveys a mood of high alert, even though the disaster has, in fact, already happened.

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Nowhere Else

Lee Kyeong-won, South Korea, 2021, 28’

After going missing, a woman is unable to remember her past until her former husband pays her a visit and she recalls a memory of where she lived with the man a long time ago.

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Swollen Stigma

Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.

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